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Justice elusive after civil rights era ambush in Louisiana
Forty years after deputy sheriffs Oneal Moore and David Rogers were ambushed on Louisiana Route 21, renewed prosecutions falter as old witnesses fade and evidence grows scarce. Family members cling to hope while experts warn that many cases may never be closed.
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Oneal Moore
David Creed Rogers
Moore
Rogers
Washington Parish
Jackson
Miss
NAACP
Medgar Evers
Byron de la Beckwith
Mississippi
Vernon Dahmer
Ku Klux Klan
Samuel H. Bowers
Dahmer
Bettie
America
FBI
Evers
Beckwith
Bowers
Tennessee
D’army Bailey
Memphis
Bailey
National Civil Rights Museum
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Sovereignty Commission
David Ingebretsen
American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi
Nathan Bedford Forrest
KKK
Sheriff’s Office
Dennis Dahmer
Ellie Dahmer
Mississippi Atty
Mike Moore
Forrest County
Hattiesburg
Sam Bowers